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B.B.'KNA PP HARNESS LOOP.

No. 400.461. Patented Apr. 2, 1889.

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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

EDMOND BURKE KNAPRCF SAN JACINTO, CALIFORNIA.

HARNESS-LOOP.

vSPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 400,461, dated April 2, 1889. Application iilecl November 30, 1888. Serial No. 292,312. (No model.)

specifically pointed out in the appended claim.

In the drawings, Figure 1 is a perspective view of a keeper or slide embodying my improvements applied in the operative position to a portion of a back-strap. Fig. 2 is a perspective view of the keeper or slide detached from the strap. Fig. 3 is a central sectional view of the keeper or slide taken transversely.

Fig. 4 is a transverse section of the same.

Referring by letter to the drawings, A designates the back-strap, and -B designates the keeper or slide, which is secured thereto near its rear end.

C designates the base of the improved keeper or slide,which is provided with a series of perforations, c c, registering with similar perforations in the back-strap and engaged by suitable rivets, c c.

D D designate the front and rear sides of the keeper integral with the said base, and E E designate the top-,bars of the keeper, integral with the sides and connecting t-he corresponding ends of the same. The center of the keeper is open, thereby rendering it lighter an d enabling the center rivet, c2, to be reached.

' F represents the hip-strap, which passes at its center over the base beneath the top bars,

. and is held by the latter in contact with the base, the said strap being at the same time allowed free rmovement in the keeper. The

upper surface of the base is rounded conveXly, so as to present no sharp edges to engage the hip-strap.

The improved keeper or slide is adapted to be made of hard rubber or gutta-percha, so as to be strong and at the same time inconspicuous when attached to the back-strap; but it is obvious that iJmay be made of metal or any other material of suitable strength.

The ordinary method of attaching the hipstrap to the back-strap is to form a loop of leather on the under side of the latter, th rough which the former passes; but this is objectionable, for the reasons that the motion of the hip-strapwears on the back-strap and the loop thereon, thereby enlarging the latter, and, permitting too much motion in the hip-strap,the back-strap is injured by the said wear, the loop is liable to be torn off by a severe strain, and the lump or enlargement formed by the crossing of the straps is liable to chafe the back of the horse.

Having thus described my invention, I claim- As an improved article of manufacture, the keeper for hip-straps, having a convexlyrounded base provided with a suitable number of perforations to receive rivets, the sides D D, integral with the base and adapted to bear against the edges of the strap, which is passed over the base, and the top bars, E E, connecting the corresponding en ds of the sides D and extending over the said strap, the said bars being integral with the sides, all contrducted and arranged substantially as speci- -In testimony that I claim the foregoing as my own I have hereto afixed my signature in presenceof two witnesses.

EDMOND BURKE KNAPP.

T. B. LocKwooD, H. CRISMER. 

